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The Netherlands is rightly world-famous for the stained-glass windows of St John's church in Gouda, but there are many more examples of this fragile medium that have withstood the ravages of time than is generally known. This is the first publication offering an exhaustive overview of the country's monumental stained glass. In addition to the mainly post-medieval glass found in situ and dispersed glass panels, the author has drawn on excavated material, designs, and documents relating to donations to evoke the scope and splendour of the now-lost glass treasures. Organised and catalogued geographically, province by province, this important study demonstrates the artistic preeminence of Holland from the mid-16th - until the early 18th century. The author offers new insights into issues of patronage and the �uvres of individual artists, be they all-round glass-painters working to their own designs, glass-painters cooperating with painters, or anonymous craftsmen catering for the average burgher.

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De inventarisatie van Van Ruyven verdient alle respect. Zij heeft een enorme hoeveelheid deels nieuwe gegevens weten te vergaren en ook meer ramen ontdekt dan aanvankelijk was verwacht. Het boek geeft daardoor een uitstekend beeld van de gebrandschilderde glas-in-loodproductie in Nederland in de genoemde periode[ ] Ondanks de soms moeilijk bereikbare - lees hooggeplaatste - ramen is het de fotografen gelukt om prachtige foto's te maken - Taco Hermans, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in Vormen uit vuur (2013-1) - This is a pioneering survey, which will long remain the indispensable point of reference for post-medieval glass-painting in The Netherlands (before 1795). It will be of interest to a far wider audience than art historians and stained glass specialists, including economic, social and political historians. - Dr Tim Ayers Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department University of York[-][-]

This is a pioneering survey, which will long remain the indispensable point of reference for post-medieval glass-painting in The Netherlands (before 1795). It will be of interest to a far wider audience than art historians and stained glass specialists, including economic, social and political historians. -Dr Tim Ayers Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department University of York

De inventarisatie van Van Ruyven verdient alle respect. Zij heeft een enorme hoeveelheid deels nieuwe gegevens weten te vergaren en ook meer ramen ontdekt dan aanvankelijk was verwacht. Het boek geeft daardoor een uitstekend beeld van de gebrandschilderde glas-in-loodproductie in Nederland in de genoemde periode[...] Ondanks de soms moeilijk bereikbare - lees hooggeplaatste - ramen is het de fotografen gelukt om prachtige foto's te maken - Taco Hermans, Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in Vormen uit vuur (2013-1) - This is a pioneering survey, which will long remain the indispensable point of reference for post-medieval glass-painting in The Netherlands (before 1795). It will be of interest to a far wider audience than art historians and stained glass specialists, including economic, social and political historians. - Dr Tim Ayers Senior Lecturer, History of Art Department University of York

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Zsuzsanna van Ruyven-Zeman is art historian, author of a monograph on Lambert van Noort, and of two volumes in the series Corpus Vitrearum The Netherlands, on the stained glass windows of the St.-Janskerk in Gouda. Her contributions on Netherlandish stained glass, drawings and prints from the 16th and 17th centuries have been published in books, exhibition catalogues and periodicals.

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